Sonic Drift 2
From Sonic Retro
| Sonic Drift 2 |
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| System(s): Sega Game Gear |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: Sega |
| Genre: Racing |
Sonic Drift 2, called Sonic Drift Racing in Europe, is a kart racing game for the Game Gear and the sequel to Sonic Drift. It features Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Amy Rose, and Dr. Eggman from the original Sonic Drift. Newly added characters are Knuckles, Fang, and Metal Sonic. As in the last game, players race around a track collecting rings and power-ups.
An unofficial port to the Master System was made by Shibunoa on June 1st, 2009. The conversion is currently in an early state, but is fully playable.
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Gameplay
Gameplay is nearly the same as the original Sonic Drift as the directional pad steers, 
uses rings for a burst of speed, and the two buttons are used for acceleration and braking. Rings are lost during collisions. The AI of the game is also much smarter and it takes effort to keep the top position. The Item boxes also are not used automatically upon being touched as in the previous game. Instead, an icon appears on the top of the screen and on the directional pad must be pressed to use the item. Only one item can be held at a time. However, the Star and Reverse balls are triggered upon impact and cannot be saved.
Chaos Emeralds are awarded for winning races. If Sonic, Tails, Knuckles or Amy collect all six in the Blue GP, they will face Dr. Eggman in a final race around the Death Egg. If Eggman, Metal Sonic or Nack collect all six in the Blue GP, they will face Sonic in the final race.
Power-Ups
Power-ups are scattered throughout each track, with a variety of abilities.
- Blue Box: Makes the player invincible for a short period of time.
- Orange Bumper: Players bounce off these if hit.
- Rings: Collecting two rings (or three in the case of Metal Sonic) allows the player to use their special attack.
- Red Box: Speed Boost.
- Springs/Ramps/Rocks/Yellow Boxes: These all launch the player up into the air, increasing your speed.
- Robotnik Balls: These throw off handling and invariably cause careening off the road.
- Black Box: Spiked Ball of Doom!
- Half-Pipe: If the player is going fast enough it will launch them up into the air.
- Red Snails: Obstacles that slow the player down.
- Balloons: Screw up handling and slow the player down.
- Rockets/Stars/drills: Cause the screen to flash white for 1 second.
- Reverse Spheres: Causes a temporary reversal in steering.
Courses
Manuals
Also Released On
- Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut for the GameCube (2003)
- Sonic Gems Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2 (2005)
- Coleco Sonic for Coleco plug and play (2006)
- Playpal Plug and Play for the Coleco Plug and play console (2006)
- Tectoy Master System 3 for the Tectoy Plug and play console (2008)
- Sonic PC Collection for the PC (2009)
Production Credits
Programmer: A. Morino
Artists: K. Tamura, H. Takano, A. Tezuka
Sound: Naofumi Hataya, Saori Kobayashi
Planner: Norihito Kato
Director: Katsuhiro Hasegawa
Producer: Motoshige Hokoyama
Resources
Scans
US cover
US cart
EU front cover
EU back cover
EU cart
JP front cover
JP back cover
JP cart
Artwork
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1991 Sonic the Hedgehog 1992 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1993 Sonic Chaos | Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 1994 Sonic Drift | Sonic Spinball | Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble 1995 Sonic Drift 2 | Tails' Skypatrol | Tails Adventures | Sonic Labyrinth | Sonic 2 in 1 1996 Sonic Blast Prototypes Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear prototype) | Sonic Chaos prereleases | Sonic Spinball (8-bit) prereleases | Sonic Triple Trouble prereleases | Sonic Blast prereleases Unreleased Sonic's Edusoft
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